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Match your hyper-converged infrastructure appliance to your apps

Planning a hyper-converged appliance purchase should start with determining which application it will run and which configuration options will meet apps' needs.

By Alastair Cooke • Feb. 16, 2018

Evaluate read-intensive and write-intensive SSD use cases

Consider write wear, performance and other factors when choosing between read-intensive, write-intensive and mixed-use solid-state drives.

By Jim O'Reilly • Feb. 16, 2018

IT infrastructure planning key for converged, hyper-converged platforms

Whether you're planning to deploy CI or HCI, infrastructure planning is critical to the project's success. Without proper planning, you could end up with poor performance.

By Rodney Brown • Feb. 13, 2018

With VxBlock 1000, Dell EMC AMPs up converged platform

Dell EMC VxBlock 1000 lets customers mix and match VMAX, Unity, XtremIO and Isilon arrays in a block with Cisco servers and networking. Will that reverse market share decline?

By Dave Raffo • Feb. 13, 2018

What’s the future of data storage technology and the IT pro?

Several enterprise data storage trends are all about getting rid of storage as an IT silo. That will have consequences for both the industry and IT pros who work in it.

By Mike Matchett • Feb. 12, 2018

Build the right hyper-converged cloud for your apps

Picking the right hyper-converged hardware and software for your application workload requires understanding how the elements of HCI can best be combined for your needs.

By Scott Lowe • Feb. 9, 2018

Dell HCI portfolio dismantled to improve chances in the CI market

Market pressures and manufacturing synergies drove Dell to integrate its HCI and CI products with its core business units, but opinions differ whether users will benefit.

By Ed Scannell • Feb. 8, 2018

IT support and service contracts ripe for savings

If you don't pay close attention to IT support, service and maintenance contracts, start now. Chances are your organization is paying more than it needs to.

By Brian Kirsch • Feb. 7, 2018

Software-defined storage leaders talk 2018 trends in SDS, HCI

Software-defined storage, fueled by hyper-converged infrastructure and scale-out object/file storage, will grow in 2018, but terminology and product architectures may change.

By Carol Sliwa • Feb. 5, 2018

Test your knowledge of VMware vSAN requirements and support

VMware vSAN is a powerful tool in the hyper-converged infrastructure space. Test your knowledge of its requirements in order to see what you need to be able to use it.

By Nick Moore • Feb. 1, 2018

Spectre, Meltdown vulnerabilities put SDS, HCI at risk

Spectre and Meltdown patches should be applied to hyper-converged and other software-defined storage products that run on hosts with user installed application processes.

By Howard Marks • Jan. 22, 2018

Hypervisor software and your hyper-converged infrastructure

The hypervisor layer in HCI is becoming an expected feature, but it is important to know what role it plays and how it can affect the rest of the components.

By Rodney Brown • Jan. 17, 2018

Hyper-converged vs. converged labels don’t apply to some products

Converged and hyper-converged infrastructure labels are becoming less clear as vendors such as NetApp and Datrium introduce products that allow for scaling components separately.

By Alastair Cooke • Jan. 17, 2018

How Red Hat assembled an open source hyper-converged platform

By combining Gluster Storage with its Red Hat Virtualization software, Red Hat has thrown its own cap into the software-only HCI ring with an open source offering.

By Robert Sheldon • Jan. 16, 2018

The role of HCI in the hyper-converged cloud

HCI and the cloud have virtualization at their cores, which makes the two platforms a good combination for organizations planning a hybrid cloud IT architecture.

By Scott Lowe • Jan. 16, 2018

VMware security products create balance between front and back end

VMware security products, such as NSX and AppDefense, eliminate some of the problems associated with other security offerings to maintain performance levels and user experience.

By Brian Kirsch • Jan. 15, 2018

Hybrid cloud, SDDC products boost quarterly VMware revenue

According to VMware's Q3 2018 earnings report, the company received a nice boost from VMware Cloud on AWS, but NSX and vSAN remain the biggest contributors to VMware revenue.

By Stuart Burns • Jan. 10, 2018

What Linux storage benchmarking tools are best?

Several tools and commands can come in handy to storage admins looking to benchmark I/O performance on Linux systems. But not all benchmarking tools are created equal.

By Stephen Bigelow • Jan. 10, 2018

Three requirements for a hybrid cloud computing deployment

As the hybrid cloud computing approach gains steam, organizations will need to pay close attention to cross-cloud connectivity and management, plus microservices.

By Clive Longbottom • Jan. 9, 2018

What is VMware Remote Console and how do you run it?

A vSphere administrator can use VMware Remote Console to remotely access a VM's peripherals, configuration and desktop remotely through the vSphere Web Client.

By Vladan Seget • Jan. 4, 2018

PKS complements VMware’s cloud-native application portfolio

Pivotal Container Service takes a DevOps-oriented approach to containers and improves VMware's cloud-native application strategy by adding Kubernetes support to vSphere.

By Alastair Cooke • Jan. 3, 2018

vSphere HA (VMware High Availability)

VMware vSphere HA (High Availability) is a utility included in VMware's vSphere software that can restart failed virtual machines (VMs) on alternative host servers to reduce application downtime.

By Margaret Rouse, Nick Martin • Dec. 20, 2017

How do you upgrade VM hardware, and what are the benefits?

You can set up your infrastructure to better take advantage of new technology in just a few steps. Perform a VM version upgrade to get the most out of what you have.

By Vladan Seget • Dec. 19, 2017

Use SpoofGuard to defend against malicious activity in VMware NSX

SpoofGuard monitors network traffic to identify malicious activity and prevent phishing attacks. Before you enable SpoofGuard in NSX, there are a few things you should know.

By Rob Bastiaansen • Dec. 12, 2017

Compare different vCenter Server editions to find what fits

Compare and contrast vCenter Server licensing options, and choose what's best based on how much support you need and how many ESXi hosts you want to manage.

By Vladan Seget • Nov. 30, 2017